The same story again and again?

I can only agree with all the points that all of you have pointed out. Like the importance of the telegraph. I don't think I have ever really thought about that as the beginning of everything. Normally we hear about the telephone as the first way for a sender to communicate with a reciever without the two of them beeing in the same room, but still in time.. Which was a big step from earlier where you could only communicate by mail and therefore had to wait several days, weeks or months to get a response back. Beside the surprise of learning about the telegraph, the thing that I noticed the most was that every time a new form of media arises, it seems like the story repeats itself. At first people are afriad of the new media and wonders if the sounds from it has a connection to God, here I think about the telegraph, the telephone and the radio. And after that people start to think about how this new techonology will affect them and then after some time often a few decades they realize that the techonology isn't as scary as they thought.
It is also interesting that there always have been these warnings about what the newest technology could do to you, your child or your marriage. I don't really believe that people actually got divorced because of the husbands obsession of the radio.
At last I just want to comment on one of the things that I thought was a bit funny in the radio text which is the part about how women at the beginning hated the radio and the men therefore had to installed it, when they were out of the house. Isn't it still one of the things that couples fight about when they move in together? Now it's just not the radio but the flatscreen and the suround sound system that they fight about. I guess somethings just don't change.